Third patient attendant dies
A third CHSLD patient attendant has died of Covid, this one in Cartierville.
The Jewish General is dealing with two distinct outbreaks.
Georges Laraque has been hospitalized with the virus.
Some people have actually proposed deliberately catching Covid in the spirit of the old chickenpox parties people held before a vaccine was developed. There are five good reasons not to do this.
Aaron Derfel’s twitter thread of the day looks at outbreaks in hospitals.
Here’s an upside to the lockdown: people say they’re getting better sleep because they can match their own sleep cycle, not the boss’s.
Ephraim 22:23 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
Two more good reasons, they have noted a small percentage of younger people having a stroke. And there is at least one report of a lady in Italy who has tested positive for over 60 days… an inadvertent typhoid Mary. From what I understand, they won’t let her out until she tests negative. See https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/the-italian-model-who-keeps-testing-positive-to-coronavirus-two-months-after-diagnosis-c-996498
Brett 07:29 on 2020-05-01 Permalink
The Covid party article is clearly clickbait. Seriously is anyone seriously suggesting this? If anything, from now on it will be morally unacceptable to let either yourself or your child out of the house if either of you are sick. Expect absences due to colds to go way up. Not sure if universal sick pay will follow, though.
Kate 09:06 on 2020-05-01 Permalink
Brett, if you google for “coronavirus party” or “covid party” you’ll see there are people doing this. There’s even a wikipedia page.